Learning and teaching with global peers in the Flat Classroom - NetGenEd Project
What are some effective strategies for teaching and learning that prepare students to be 21st-century global leaders and enable them to communicate, collaborate, and co-create with international peers? Students at The International School of the Americas participated in the Flat ClassroomTM – Net Generation Education Project with peers from fifteen schools in seven different countries. Using Web 2.0 technologies including a wiki, a social bookmarking group, and an educational networking site, they researched the future of educational technology, created multi-media projects, and shared their findings with a worldwide audience.
Note: Additional resources that came up during the session are listed and linked at the bottom of this page.
Introductions
My contact info: honor (dot) moorman (at) gmail (dot) com
I've set up a backchannel for this workshop on Google Moderator - a place to ask, advocate for, and answer questions
January - Intro to 21c GL - Lessons on Technology in Society, Social Responsibility and Global Leadership
Web 2.0 technologies are increasingly enabling us to be "prosumers " (Don Tapscott, Wikinomics) - simultaneously producing and consuming content, examples: Nike tennis shoes, M&Ms, Lego Mindstorms --> YouTube mashups, commenting on news articles and blogs, retweeting on Twitter
Digital Citizenship Reflections - What does it mean to be a digital citizen? How would you rank your current digital citizenship and why?
Students created Six Word Stories about life in the digital age, which we submitted to the official PBS Frontline: Digital Nation website (click the green frogs) This task introduced students to Google docs, Creative Commons resources, incorporating hyperlinks in citations, and publishing work to the world wide web.
Augmented Reality page she created on our class wiki in the process of creating her video - completely her idea; no other student created a video this way
To analyze a text to see what words or concepts are most prominent - Wordle - 20 ideas on how to use them
Tip: the text of every TED Talk is available on the TED Talks website - on each video page, click "open interactive transcript" at top right
Table of Contents
The World is Flat and Your Classroom Can Be, Too
Learning and teaching with global peers in the Flat Classroom - NetGenEd ProjectWhat are some effective strategies for teaching and learning that prepare students to be 21st-century global leaders and enable them to communicate, collaborate, and co-create with international peers? Students at The International School of the Americas participated in the Flat ClassroomTM – Net Generation Education Project with peers from fifteen schools in seven different countries. Using Web 2.0 technologies including a wiki, a social bookmarking group, and an educational networking site, they researched the future of educational technology, created multi-media projects, and shared their findings with a worldwide audience.
A Co-Lab facilitated at the Asia Society International Studies Schools Network Summer Institute,
part of their Partnership for Global Learning Annual Conference - Creating Success in a Global Era: A World-Class Education for Every Student
Note: Additional resources that came up during the session are listed and linked at the bottom of this page.
Introductions
My contact info: honor (dot) moorman (at) gmail (dot) comI've set up a backchannel for this workshop on Google Moderator - a place to ask, advocate for, and answer questions
Course Overview
Introduction to 21st Century Global Leadership at ISA - Course DescriptionInspired by the 21st Century Literacies defined by the National Council of Teachers of English and the Global Leadership Performance Outcomes developed by the Asia Society's International Studies Schools Network
Did You Know?
January - Intro to 21c GL - Lessons on Technology in Society, Social Responsibility and Global Leadership
Web 2.0 technologies are increasingly enabling us to be "prosumers " (Don Tapscott, Wikinomics) - simultaneously producing and consuming content, examples: Nike tennis shoes, M&Ms, Lego Mindstorms --> YouTube mashups, commenting on news articles and blogs, retweeting on Twitter
Digital Citizenship Reflections - What does it mean to be a digital citizen? How would you rank your current digital citizenship and why?
Poll Everywhere - participant responses
Digital Nation
February - Digital Nation - PBS Teachers Innovation Challenge
This gave students an introduction to the experience of communicating and collaborating asynchronously on a wiki.
Students created Six Word Stories about life in the digital age, which we submitted to the official PBS Frontline: Digital Nation website (click the green frogs)
This task introduced students to Google docs, Creative Commons resources, incorporating hyperlinks in citations, and publishing work to the world wide web.
NetGenEd Project
Introduction to the Flat Classroom(TM) Project - NetGenEd 2010 - More About NetGenEdProject Structure Overview
Teachers met weekly in Elluminate (use Elluminate for free by joining LearnCentral)
Team Matrix - 15 classes, 7 different countries - students on international teams - based on interests in tech trend and net gen norm
GrownUpDigital Ning - educational networking site for team building and peer interaction - here's the ISA Group
NetGenEd Wiki - collaborative workspace for synthesizing and communicating research findings
Diigo Group - social bookmarking for highlighting, annotating, tagging, saving, and sharing online resources
Digital Footprints
Let's look at the journey of an individual student through this project . . .Alix Rowe - Simple Augmented Reality - Customization
Sarah Mueller - Electronic Books - Innovation (assistant project manager for ebooks)
Additional Resources
For synchronous collaborative writing - Google Docs or Etherpad (now TypeWith.me or PiratePad.net)For synchronous online instant messaging or backchannel discussion - Cover It Live, Twitter (use TweetDeck to manage your conversations on Twitter)
To analyze a text to see what words or concepts are most prominent - Wordle - 20 ideas on how to use them
Tip: the text of every TED Talk is available on the TED Talks website - on each video page, click "open interactive transcript" at top right
For keeping up with the latest content on almost any webpage - RSS Feeds - Common Craft explanation of how this works "in plain English"
Subscribe to RSS feeds and Google Alerts in an aggregator like Google Reader or on a personal start page like the iGoogle page
If you're interested in the Google Teacher Academy you might want to subscribe to the Google Teacher newsletter on the Google for Educators page
But you don't have to be a Google Certified Teacher to join the Google for Educators Discussion Group and take advantage of the Google Teacher Academy Resources
If you're interested in participating in the NetGenEd Project or one of the other Flat ClassroomTM Projects, check out . . .
Best wishes as you flatten your classrooms and connect your students to the flat world of their future!